Metabolism & Metabolic Health

Summary On episode 599 of 40+ Fitness, Coach Allan sits down with Kim Shapira, a celebrity dietitian with a degree in exercise kinesiology from Tulane and a master’s in human metabolism and clinical nutrition from Boston University, who has spent 25 years helping people lose weight and keep it off in her private Los Angeles… Continue reading Transform your relationship with food with Kim Shapira

Summary On episode 565 of 40+ Fitness, Coach Allan lays out a concept he calls your “inner being,” the part of you that is always working to keep you alive and reacts to every signal you send it through food, movement, and self-care. He walks through three levels of math behind weight loss: the simple… Continue reading How your inner being drives weight loss

Summary On episode 476 of 40+ Fitness, Coach Allan breaks down why the two camps people usually pick between for weight loss, calories in versus calories out and low carb versus keto, are both true and both incomplete on their own. He lays out nutrition as three layers of increasing complexity: a simple calorie math… Continue reading Why simple can be a bad long-term strategy for weight loss

Summary On episode 428 of 40+ Fitness, Coach Allan sits down with Dallas Hartwig, a functional medicine practitioner, certified sports nutritionist, and licensed physical therapist who specializes in lifestyle-related hormonal, digestive, and metabolic health, and who co-created the original Whole30 program. Dallas lays out his Four Season Solution: our bodies run on the same expansion… Continue reading The 4 Season Solution with Dallas Hartwig

Summary On episode 338 of 40+ Fitness, Coach Allan sits down with Dr. Jonny Bowden, a board-certified nutritionist known as the nutrition myth buster and the bestselling author of 13 books, to discuss his book Smart Fat. Jonny’s core position is that the quality of your food, not the percentage split between protein, carbs, and… Continue reading Smart fat with Dr Jonny Bowden

Summary On episode 247 of 40+ Fitness, Coach Allan sits down with Hillary Wright, Director of Nutritional Counseling at the Domar Center for Mind-Body Health at Boston IVF and a nutritionist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and author of The PCOS Diet Plan. Hillary argues PCOS is a genetic, metabolic mismatch condition, not just a… Continue reading Dealing with PCOS with Hillary Wright

Summary On episode 239 of 40+ Fitness, Coach Allan sits down with Dr. Michael Brown, a minister and teacher who spent decades in demanding ministry work while his health quietly slipped, and who at 62 says he is fitter than he has ever been after a radical change to his diet. Michael argues that taking… Continue reading Breaking the stronghold of food with Dr. Michael Brown

Summary On episode 80 of 40+ Fitness, Coach Allan sits down with Dr. Kellyann Petrucci, a board-certified naturopathic physician and certified nutrition consultant with a practice in Birmingham, Michigan, and a concierge doctor for celebrities in Los Angeles and New York, to discuss her book Dr. Kellyann’s Bone Broth Diet. Kellyann lays out the two… Continue reading The Bone Broth Diet with Dr. KellyAnn Petrucci

Summary On episode 73 of 40+ Fitness, Coach Allan sits down with Dr. Ludwig, a practicing endocrinologist and researcher at Boston Children’s Hospital, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and professor of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, once called an obesity warrior by Time Magazine. Dr. Ludwig argues that body weight has… Continue reading Always Hungry with Dr. Ludwig